How can I decide if a website is a credible, academic, authoritative source?



Visit www.radcab.com to learn about Relevancy, Appropriateness, Detail, Currency, Authority, and Bias. Talk with a partner about how you could apply each one in your screening of websites.


Let's look at a few of these together. RIGHT CLICK on each one and choose "Open in a New Tab":

What do you think of this website?

What about this one?

Now that you have practiced evaluating websites with RADCAB, use each of these criteria to evaluate the following:

www.valuejudgment.org
www.moveon.org
www.politifact.com
http://www.pmichaud.com/toast/
www.mankato-mn.gov/

Now please complete the following activity for homework -- due Tuesday! Evaluating Websites.docx